Yeah, but If she is getting paid by the page view, she just made a couple of sales,got a whole bunch of free advertising and is laughing all the way to the bank. FWIW, I wasn't this cynical or paranoid before entering the world of battery storage and "game changer" claims.
Electric Vehicle Battery Grants, 3 Years Of Disappointment And Failure [View article]
Arrghh. - An email from SA says I somehow managed to hit the "!report abuse" link when posting this comment. A million public apologies to Mr. Petersen and SA. - RGH
Electric Vehicle Battery Grants, 3 Years Of Disappointment And Failure [View article]
EV fan or not, in posting a picture of side by side Karmas, one clean & crisp, the other crispy, JALOPNIK is inflicting plain old cruel and unusual punishment on anyone who enjoys the beautiful curves of a sleek auto.
Automakers Raise The Stakes Again In The Micro-Hybrid Battery Battle [View article]
Some Saturday reading: GE 8K re:wind & trains.
"Infrastructure orders were $21.5 billion, down 5% primarily driven by a decrease in orders for wind turbines. Orders were up 4% excluding the effects of Wind and FX. Year-to-date orders were up 4%, with four out of five Infrastructure businesses showing growth. Pricing on orders was up 0.1% in total for the quarter. During the quarter, GE announced an order to supply 110 Evolution™ Series locomotive kits to Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ). GE also announced nearly $1.2 billion in commitments for its new FlexEfficiency™ 60 power generation technology for projects in the United States, Saudi Arabia and Japan. GE also signed the world's largest subsea wellhead production contract with Petrobras, worth nearly $1.1 billion."
Also interesting was the oft repeated phrase that sectors did well. "except wind & FX" (FX - Foreign Exchange), expecting another 40% drop in wind next year; and they are finding GE customers are using their gas turbines more and more to supply base-load.
Energy, Imagination And Politics: A Toxic Cocktail For Your Portfolio [View article]
Mr. Doty,
Good comment. One of the opinions out of the NASA Challenger disaster was that top management at the time was made up of pure theory PHDs turned by the universities. They had replaced the orignal NASA team which was colleged trained, but were farm boys and factory workers who had hand-ons mechanical experience in their youth. The result was a lack of real world mechanical experiences that may have doomed the mission.
The point is that to stay competitive the US should be investing in DEDICATED research. That reseach then being available to both the garage inventor and corporate white-coat who can apply their real world experiences to develop new technologies. Mr. Market being left to choose the winners and losers.
FWIW - A good model may be the government universities in China dedicated to rare earth research, who in turn share data with the Chinese miners.
Axion Power Concentrator 164: Oct. 16, 2012: NS-999 Lives, 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", And More From John Petersen, Brishwain And Axion's Letter To Shareholders [View instapost]
Check out China production and consumption estimates from USGS. Assuming that all stockpiles are already spoken for, they will run out of mined lead in about 8 years. Recycling being the wild card. The good news: global production looks to have a 20-year supply at current rates. However, the graph Indelco was kind enough to share shows the consumption rate escalating. JCI and XIDE could have significant price and supply chain advantages over other battery makers due to their recycling businesses, especially if they have buy-back agreements with their resellers. FWIW - The USGS site is full of interesting articles. http://bit.ly/TtOrKK P.S. - USGS is not the US Geological Service
Axion Power Concentrator 161: Oct. 09, 2012: 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", And More From John Petersen, Brishwain And Axion's Letter To Shareholders [View instapost]
Thanks Indelco. Seen several articles with one-line sentences stating NS had a battery locomotive, but was pretty sure if it was operating, would have heard it here first. Thanks for the update.
Axion Power Concentrator 161: Oct. 09, 2012: 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", And More From John Petersen, Brishwain And Axion's Letter To Shareholders [View instapost]
Is it correct that the NS 999 already has the battery system installed? And if so, is it possible they are just waiting for Altoona's coldest month, (January according to the Weather Channel) to do winter testing?
Axion Power Concentrator 159: Oct. 04, 2012: 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", John Petersen's "Rising To The Micro-Hybrid Challenge", Brishwain's Notes [View instapost]
Futurist, Agreed. The scary part is: "But banks — which were encouraged by Beijing to make the loans — are not eager to acknowledge that the loans are bad and take large write-offs, preferring to lend more money to allow the repayment of previous loans." You or I do that in this country, its called a Ponzi scheme. And we all know how those end.
Axion Power Concentrator 160: Oct. 05, 2012: 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", And More From John Petersen, Brishwain And Axion's Letter To Shareholders [View instapost]
Hmmm, Elon Musk, closet Petersen reader?
Petersen: "...kill the electric car, drive a stake through its heart..." 09/25/11 Mr. Musk on Space Solar Power : "Stab that bloody thing in the heart" 10/04/2012
Axion Power Concentrator 176, Nov. 16: Q3 '12 Report, SAE Truck APU App. Presentation; Rosewater & Queens Univ. Partner On Distributed Energy Study; 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems" [View instapost]
Axion Power Concentrator 174: Nov. 13, Rosewater & Queens Univ. Partner On Distributed Energy Study; Q3 '12 Earnings & CC & Webcast: Mr. Investor Prods Viridity Energy, 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems" [View instapost]
Axion Power Concentrator 171: Nov. 04, 2012: Mr. Investor Prods Viridity Energy, NS-999 Lives, 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems" [View instapost]
Axion Power Concentrator 171: Nov. 04, 2012: Mr. Investor Prods Viridity Energy, NS-999 Lives, 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems" [View instapost]
http://bit.ly/yE6bt4
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FWIW, I wasn't this cynical or paranoid before entering the world of battery storage and "game changer" claims.
Electric Vehicle Battery Grants, 3 Years Of Disappointment And Failure [View article]
Electric Vehicle Battery Grants, 3 Years Of Disappointment And Failure [View article]
Automakers Raise The Stakes Again In The Micro-Hybrid Battery Battle [View article]
"Infrastructure orders were $21.5 billion, down 5% primarily driven by a decrease in orders for wind turbines. Orders were up 4% excluding the effects of Wind and FX. Year-to-date orders were up 4%, with four out of five Infrastructure businesses showing growth. Pricing on orders was up 0.1% in total for the quarter. During the quarter, GE announced an order to supply 110 Evolution™ Series locomotive kits to Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ). GE also announced nearly $1.2 billion in commitments for its new FlexEfficiency™ 60 power generation technology for projects in the United States, Saudi Arabia and Japan. GE also signed the world's largest subsea wellhead production contract with Petrobras, worth nearly $1.1 billion."
Also interesting was the oft repeated phrase that sectors did well. "except wind & FX" (FX - Foreign Exchange), expecting another 40% drop in wind next year; and they are finding GE customers are using their gas turbines more and more to supply base-load.
Energy, Imagination And Politics: A Toxic Cocktail For Your Portfolio [View article]
Good comment. One of the opinions out of the NASA Challenger disaster was that top management at the time was made up of pure theory PHDs turned by the universities. They had replaced the orignal NASA team which was colleged trained, but were farm boys and factory workers who had hand-ons mechanical experience in their youth. The result was a lack of real world mechanical experiences that may have doomed the mission.
The point is that to stay competitive the US should be investing in DEDICATED research. That reseach then being available to both the garage inventor and corporate white-coat who can apply their real world experiences to develop new technologies. Mr. Market being left to choose the winners and losers.
FWIW - A good model may be the government universities in China dedicated to rare earth research, who in turn share data with the Chinese miners.
Axion Power Concentrator 164: Oct. 16, 2012: NS-999 Lives, 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", And More From John Petersen, Brishwain And Axion's Letter To Shareholders [View instapost]
FWIW - The USGS site is full of interesting articles.
http://bit.ly/TtOrKK
P.S. - USGS is not the US Geological Service
Axion Power Concentrator 161: Oct. 09, 2012: 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", And More From John Petersen, Brishwain And Axion's Letter To Shareholders [View instapost]
Axion Power Concentrator 161: Oct. 09, 2012: 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", And More From John Petersen, Brishwain And Axion's Letter To Shareholders [View instapost]
Axion Power Concentrator 159: Oct. 04, 2012: 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", John Petersen's "Rising To The Micro-Hybrid Challenge", Brishwain's Notes [View instapost]
Axion Power Concentrator 160: Oct. 05, 2012: 13th ELBC: Axion's "Operational Stability Of PbC Batteries And Battery Systems", And More From John Petersen, Brishwain And Axion's Letter To Shareholders [View instapost]
Petersen: "...kill the electric car, drive a stake through its heart..."
09/25/11
Mr. Musk on Space Solar Power : "Stab that bloody thing in the heart"
10/04/2012
Energy Storage: Q4 2012 Winners And Losers [View article]